Chapter 766: How Is a Top-Tier AD Forged?

The conflict broke out without warning, instantly igniting the atmosphere in the Wukesong Arena.

Guan Zeyuan's voice also rose from steady to suddenly soaring, like a lone peak shooting up from the plain:

"... "Xiao Duan is really slippery this game, his skills are cooled down, he wants to come up and be slippery again but Meiko suddenly strikes! Xiao Duan didn't react and got bounced back!!"

Wow, Meiko!!

This bounce can also hit?! Too amazing!

iboy slides over to connect a Pierce, aiming to unleash his burst instantly!

Meiko lands a hook!

Xiao Duan is already low on health! Fortunately Sima Laozei rushes over and heals him a bit! Sima Laozei simultaneously speeds up, closes the distance, and unleashes Deadly Feathered Cloak damage on iboy!

The heal from Meiko's Ignite that wasn't converted well is quite substantial, preventing Xiao Duan from being executed! But the crisis is not over yet!

Over a hundred HP is just a single basic attack from someone... What the!!

After Xiao Duan used his Q, he actually dared to move forward and lift!!! iboy didn't expect the opponent to dare to lift up, didn't react, and got flung up!!

Xiao Duan applied Ignite, landed a basic attack, then used Light Dance Duo to swing back, relying on his shield to block a basic attack from Meiko!!

My! God!!!

Six HP!!!

Xiao Duan didn't die!!!

iboy was furious and wanted to flash and auto-attack to kill Xiao Duan, but all the damage was blocked by his shield; Sima Laozei suddenly flashed to iboy's side and landed a reverse hook! A multitude of feathers plus a basic attack instantly killed iboy!!!

Huh?!

My heavens?!

What terrifying damage! iboy didn't even have time to press heal and was instantly killed! Sima Laozei took iboy's kill experience, leveled up again, and continued outputting damage on Meiko!

Meiko didn't dare to be careless, quickly flashed and pulled back, simultaneously throwing a lantern toward the river to feign picking up the factory chief, actually an empty city tactic! Although the factory chief immediately rushed down, he's still far away from here!

Sima Laozei didn't pursue further, not because he was scared by Meiko's empty city tactic, but because he simply couldn't catch up.

The atmosphere at the venue had exploded; the rapidly shifting situation turned EDG fans' cheers into wails, while VG fans' gasps turned into cheers.

In EDG's team voice channel, after Meiko retreated under the tower, he frowned and asked: "Why didn't you press heal?"

iboy stared blankly, hearing this he came to his senses, after two seconds of silence he replied: "I didn't react."

Indeed, he didn't react.

The enemy only had a level 3 Xayah, yet they could instantly kill a sliding shoe with over 300 HP—who could have predicted that?

Also, Guan Zeyuan was actually mistaken about this—Sima Laozei's instant-kill operation order was not flash then reverse hook, but reverse hook then flash.

This is the first time the E-flash operation has appeared on the battlefield since Xayah's release, and most AD players only learned after watching this match that Xayah can actually E-flash.

However, Sima Laozei also learned this from Liang Yan.

Not long ago, during a practice match against Samsung, Sima Laozei once traded one-for-one with the enemy Ruler, and Liang Yan casually remarked: "Ma Ge, next time you encounter this situation you can E-flash; it's more stable than flash-E, and generally no one can dodge it."

Afterward, Sima Laozei opened training mode and intensely practiced the E-flash operation for two hours.

Furthermore, Sima Laozei incorporated this operation training into his daily warm-up, reviewing it once each day.

After over a week, the effect was significant; this operation had almost become Sima Laozei's instinct, and whenever an opportunity to use it arose, he would subconsciously execute it.

At this moment, Sima Laozei felt that his efforts had indeed paid off; he felt proud, and also felt more grateful toward Liang Yan.

Without exaggeration, this play could perhaps raise his value and fame to another level—although Sima Laozei doesn't care that much about his value and fame.

The fame of an esports professional player actually comes from accumulating such extreme operations over and over; Uzi is like that, and Liang Yan is like that.

Of course, the reason this VG duo could pull off an extreme counter-kill against EDG is mainly thanks to Xiao Duan's Leona's crucial lift.

But don't ask how the limit comes about……

Xiao Duan also gradually lost himself amid his teammates' endless praise.

The VG duo's coordination this round is too awesome!

When the situation stabilized, the director quickly switched to the combat replay; Guan Zeyuan watched the VG duo's brilliant operation once more, then directly turned on the praise mode.

Miller also couldn't help shaking his head and sighing: "Ginger is still old and spicy; although iboy is acclaimed as one of the LPL's new-gen three top AD talents, in front of Sima Laozei, a veteran who's long been famous, whether it's experience or on-the-spot adaptability, he's still quite far behind."

It's not just experience; just looking at this play, I feel Ma Ge's operation is not inferior to any AD.

Hmm, if Ma Ge can maintain this state, he can indeed become one of the world's top AD players.

VG fans instantly became unhappy; many criticism comments flew across the big screen on site, all meaning roughly the same: Ma Ge is already an MSI champion; at least before the S7 World Finals, he was the world's number one AD!

Of course, there were also some EDG fans who posted on-site comments to rebut.

Seeing that both sides were about to argue, the director quickly increased the comment filtering strength.

The view returned to the live match. This VG bottom lane counter-kill had a huge impact on the situation; EDG lost an AD, which not only rendered Meiko's plans completely void, but also dealt a massive blow to EDG's team morale.

They gave you the sliding shoes, and that's all?

You were just pressing for a few minutes earlier, but when the real fight started you didn't even win and still gave away a head?

Xiao Duan didn't even use his flash!

You have to know, the sliding shoe is an extreme early-game champion; if EDG's composition is a censer setup, the sliding shoe in mid-to-late game still barely has a fighting chance—the problem is that EDG, in order to further strengthen the sliding shoe's early-game combat power, chose to discard the censer support and pick Thresh!

Meanwhile, the enemy side is Xayah-Leona plus censer system!

This isn't even the worst part; what frightens EDG even more is that VG also has a Yasuo that becomes incredibly strong after two items!

Even the core of this VG lineup isn't Xayah, but precisely this Yasuo! Super dual-core censer system……What's its upper limit?

No one knew before the match ended.

In short, this match can roughly be seen as: once iboy's sliding shoe fails to take effect, EDG can basically forfeit this game!